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You’re rationalizing exploitation. There are open source rules and corporations are breaking them. OpenAI most of all these days.
by slowhadoken 3y ago
You’re rationalizing exploitation. There are open source rules and corporations are breaking them. OpenAI most of all these days.
- theamk 3y agoBy "OpenAI", do you mean Github Copilot training on open source data? Even if government makes new laws, it's not going to be nearly enough. Github Copilot had $100M revenue (not profit) 6 month ago [0]. Let's say MS dedicates half of it to payment to providers of training data. Github currently has 120M public repositories [1] - that's less than $0.50/year for each repo. Even if we say only 1% of repos are "alive" and need payments, that's still $50/year, not enough to pay for any development. So I agree that OpenAI is unfair and should be prohibited from scraping all copyleft code, but fixing this won't help with open source payments at all. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37835486 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37835486 [1] https://github.com/search?q=is%3Apublic&type=repositories https://github.com/search?q=is%3Apublic&type=repositories
- slowhadoken 3y agoBy "OpenAI" I mean anything that scrapes open source code to profit off of it especially without giving credit. Any other conversation is a distraction. And while tech bros pontificate Red Hat is dying.